Title :
Internet access to digital medical X-rays by image features and associated text
Author :
Long, L. Rodney ; Thoma, George R.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Libr. of Med., Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstract :
The Web-based Medical Information Retrieval System (WebMIRS) allows Internet access to databases containing 17,000 digitized X-ray spine images and associated textual data from National Health and Nutrition examination Surveys (NHANES). WebMIRS allows SQL query of the text, and viewing of the returned text records and images using a standard browser. We are segmenting a subset of the vertebrae, using techniques from vertebral morphometry. From this, we derive and add to the database vertebral features. This image-derived data will enhance the user´s data access capability by enabling the creation of combined SQL/image-content queries.
Keywords :
SQL; X-ray imaging; content-based retrieval; medical image processing; online front-ends; visual databases; Internet access; NHANES; National Health and Nutrition examination Surveys; SQL query; Web-based Medical Information Retrieval System; WebMIRS; combined SQL/image-content queries; data access; database vertebral features; databases; digital medical X-rays; digitized X-ray spine images; image features; image-derived data; standard browser; text records; textual data; vertebrae; vertebral morphometry; Biomedical imaging; Bone diseases; Cardiovascular diseases; Image databases; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Internet; Spatial databases; Spine; X-rays;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems & Computers, 1998. Conference Record of the Thirty-Second Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5148-7
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.1998.751012
